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From Caligula to Constantine explores how these and other notorious figures of Roman history were portrayed during their lifetimes, and the reaction to their deaths.

From Caligula to Constantine explores how these and other notorious figures of Roman history were portrayed during their lifetimes, and the reaction to their deaths. In a world without mass media, portraits in stone, br For centuries after their reigns, the "bad" emperors of Rome have captured the popular imagination, their legends inspiring novels, works of art, and films.

From Caligula to Constantine" explores how these and other notorious figures of Roman history were portrayed during their lifetimes, and the reaction to their deaths

From Caligula to Constantine" explores how these and other notorious figures of Roman history were portrayed during their lifetimes, and the reaction to their deaths. In a world without mass media, portraits in stone, bronze, and other materials broadcast the ruler's image throughout the empire, exalting him and representing him in the best possible light. When an emperor was overthrown, the portraits could themselves suffer a violent fate.

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Roman Portraits: Uses and Re-Uses Private portrait sculpture was most closely associated with funerary contexts. Varner, Eric . ed. From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture. Exhibition catalogue. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2000. Funerary altars (3. 7) and tomb structures were adorned with portrait reliefs of the deceased along with short inscriptions noting their family or patrons, and portrait busts accompanied cinerary urns that were deposited in the niches of large, communal tombs known as columbaria.

1993) in Classics, Yale University is Assistant Professor of Art History and Classics, Emory University. He has published on Roman portraits, including the catalogue From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Imperial Portraiture (Atlanta, 2000). combines the best of 'old school' portrait studies (typologies) with a critical outlook and due consideration given to the significance of these images as historical documents. Andreas Kropp in AWE 8 (2009).

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This group is for anyone who loves the Ancient Roman art and portraiture of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty! Dealing with. Articles on Roman portraiture, iconography of Roman empresses, and portraiture and religion in Roman North Africa Work in Progress Grotesque Aesthetics. Transgression and Transcendence in the Age of Nero (in progress).

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Varner, Eric R. 2000. From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture n. 55, Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. The Colosseum, Ada Gabucci, ed. p. 91, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Roman Portraits: Sculptures in Stone and Bronze in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 31, pp. 56, 63, 98-101, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Knauss, Florian. Charakterköpfe: Griechen und Römer im Porträt pp. 305-306, fig.

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